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"There are horror stories about chickens eating superworms whole and them chewing their way back out of the crop..." All I can say is I'd never heard of this.

The best substrate for them for fastest growth in wheat bran. If you'll be doing a multi layer with screen for drop through of the eggs, oatmeal works best for where the beetles will be kept (the eggs sift down through but the substrate doesn't) You can use basically any grain as that's what...

I was most happy with windows XP pro. It was the best OS I ever used. I tried the upgrade to 7 when support for xp ended. It was a complete nightmare for me. It was touted as the best and most stable of any iteration of windows, but it was horrible to me. Constant blue screens and lock ups. So...

No, I know this. I was stating the browser owner and the name of the browser. Google makes Chrome. Microsoft; The MEGA manufacturer of the OS Windows, has their browser IE. And now I guess that has morphed into "Edge"... Either way, not gonna use it/them. I use MS10. And I don't really care...

I'm a big Mozilla Firefox fan myself... not designed by an advertising/sales organization (Google Chrome) or the major OS mega giant (Microsoft IE) and has thousands of addons to customize it to do exactly what you want it to do, rather than being set up to do what the advertising/sales giant...

I might have mentioned in a post or two that doing that screen/multi stage/sorting/etc. was VERY labor intensive... Glad you've simplified things It makes it much easier, less hassle, less time consuming, works just as well and did I mention easier? Wow.... that's some serious chicken...

Do NOT put DE in with your mealworms unless you want a bunch of dead mealworms. DE works as an abrasive that will cut their exoskeletons and kill them. DE is used in animals feeds for bug prevention for this reason. I also don't personally recommend feeding chicken feed to the worms, or dog food...

Just watch them grow. Temp is the biggest factor in how long it will take, given that they have food and a moisture source. Warmer = faster. Since you said you have multiple containers, I have to assume you're trying to separate the various stages. Too much tedious work for me. Get yourself a...

Now folks can see just how small these things are, and those have probably already molted twice! Grats!

Aliens I tell ya... they done came and altered your worms! It's all a communist plot!

Ummm to the best of my (admittedly limited) knowledge, the mites eat the bran/grain... they are GRAIN mites, not carnivores or omnivores. The only detrimental effect I can think of, reasonably come up with, would be they are so numerous that they "smother" the pupae since they (the pupae) can't...

Why be stubborn? I mean there's no need to re-invent the wheel and no need to make things more complex than they need to be...

Maybe it's just me, if so, take no account... Gut loading might have some benefit when feeding a meal worm or 2 to a smaller lizard that's 10 times the size/weight of the worm, but when you're feeding that same worm or even 20 or more to a chicken, the affects would IMHO, be minuscule to...

Might just be me, but those spud slices look like they are drying out and molding. I'd get those out of there and put in more carrots.

What @aart said! Exactly!

The "bedding" is their food. They are "meal" worms... they eat grains... or as it's also known when processed, meal. You don't WANT it absorbing moisture as that will lead to mold. You shouldn't have to replace it, just add more to it when it's getting low. Their poop, called frass, is dry and...

@tfalls3 I don't think that really matters. I believe that's more a function of how many molts/what size the meal worm was when it pupated... All the beetles end up about the same size.

Was wondering the same thing aart... Maybe Little Fuzzy thought he/she was somewhere else?

Beautiful build and location... looks positively tropical! Many folks go way overboard on the number of nesting boxes. I guess we just think that every hen needs her own. In retrospect, I'm glad that's not the case... I don't have as many now but had over 30 at one point. Turns out you only...

OK... Are you putting some carrots or whatever you're using for a moisture source in all 3 drawers? The pupae don't use it, but still need some moisture via humidity to keep them from drying out. I see you're using oats in the worm drawer and what looks like corn meal mixed with something in the...